Where has the Voice of Society Gone?
Have we become complacent? Are we caught up in our own little worlds? Do we no longer care about future generations.
When I was young we spoke out against Vietnam – a completely senseless war. Today we have Iraq. Obviously we didn’t learn anything – when we have wars mothers lose their children, women and men lose their spouses, and children lose their parents and men and women come back with mental scars for life.
Yes sometimes we need to defend ourselves – but that was not the case in Iraq. Iraq was senseless unless your portfolio includes a big stake in oil.
Then there was the Exxon Valdez disaster – As many as half a million birds died. Over 30,000 carcasses of 90 species of birds were plucked from the beaches, but this was only a fraction of the actual mortality, and harm to birds from chronic effects and decreased reproduction continues today and that is only the tip of that iceberg. Today we have the Gulf of Mexico – an NBC News report on June 11th stated that scientists claimed that the amount of oil being spilled in the Gulf of Mexico was the equivalent of “one Exxon Valdez spill every one to 10 days.”
So why do we put our family and oceans at risk?
The list of electric cars and carburetors that get over a hundred miles per gallon is countless and have been around for years. So why are we all still slaves to oil? I’m sure we all know, but what I’m interested in most – what is it going to take before we make our voices really heard and then take the action necessary to precipitate change?
